Camille Tardif

I come from France and I studied textile design at a Top school of design in Paris, l'ENSCI les Ateliers. I recently embarked on a multidisciplinary approach. Taking things in the opposite way is an essential value of my work: this is why I chose to divert textile techniques and apply them to paper.

My work is both a tribute and an account of textile know-how. My woven works navigate and create links between textile, painting and sculpture. Like Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker with ‘Rosas danst rosas’* or Gertrude Stein ‘Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose’**, I exploit repetition and nuance, which, in my creations, serve the color itself, reveal it within its essentiality. The color increases tenfold in volume, its tonality and rhythm varying according to the viewer's point of view. Thanks to the batik technique, I work on blur and accident with the manipulation of hot wax. This is how I disturb my always calculated work. The process that isolates ‘the white’ by wax reserve allowed me to work on the blur and to have an extremely dense approach to color: both diffuse and compact, both complex and raw.